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Roughly 3,000 people in Africa have adopted bitcoin in recent weeks and months. The big clincher? Many of these people don’t have access to the internet, and bitcoin is “internet money.” In other words, if you don’t have access to the World Wide Web, then you likely can’t access your digital wallet, exchanges, or other trading tools that will grant you the power to trade, sell, and buy crypto. Africa Sure Loves Its Crypto The tool behind all this is called Machankura....

The Bluesky social media platform is hiring for software developers positions including React Native expert among others and supports full-time remote capabilities. Bluesky, a social internet marketplace backed by former Twitter Inc boss Jack Dorsey, is now available on Android gadgets. The startup has provided a waitlist for users to join or access the beta version of the decentralized social marketplace via invite. Having begun as a Twitter Inc. project before a spin-off in 2021, Bluesky...

Binance.US is reportedly closer to acquiring Voyager assets after the UCC secured a deal with the US federal government.  Voyager Digital Holdings sees its $1 billion deal with Binance.US move closer to actualization following an agreement with the US government. Yesterday, the bankrupt crypto lender sealed a deal with the federal government that allows Voyager to sell its assets to Binance.US. On Twitter, the Voyager Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (UCC) elaborated on the...

The new spot trading feature will have zero maker and taker fees, meaning there will be no margin for the exchange. Deribit, the world’s largest crypto options exchange, is expanding its offerings by launching its zero-fee spot trading. Per the announcement, the company will launch a zero-fee spot exchange by April 24. With this development, Deribit now offers a full spectrum of trading opportunities to its clients. The move comes shortly after Binance ended its zero-fee spot trading...

VC giant Andreessen Horowitz noted that more systems will help in offering more robust decentralization for the Optimism platform. On Wednesday, April 19, the crypto wing of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced its blockchain infrastructure plan of working on a roll-up client for Optimism (OP) dubbed Magi. This helped Optimism’s native OP token to recover from the broad market sell-off on early Wednesday. Yesterday, the Optimism (OP) token price jumped all the way...

Coinbase received its license to operate in Bermuda on April 19th. The action was taken to keep up with the company’s campaign for “global scale to go broad and deep”. Coinbase plans to launch a coastal derivatives exchange in the next week, after it acquired a license to function in Bermuda from the Bermuda Monetary Authority. Coinbase applauded Bermuda as an excessively reputed and professional financial regulator in its announcement. Coinbase had long been looking to inaugurate an...

EOS price started a fresh decline from the $1.25 resistance zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $1.20 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $1.165 on the 4-hour chart of the EOS/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could continue to decline if it stays below the $1.15 and $1.165 resistance levels. EOS price is struggling below $1.165 against the US Dollar, similar to...

Litecoin started a fresh decline below the $95 zone against the US Dollar. LTC price is now trading below $95 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There was a break below a key bullish trend line with support near $93 on the 4-hour chart of the LTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair is at risk of a downside break below the $90 and $88 support levels. Litecoin price is struggling below $95 against the US Dollar, similar to Bitcoin. LTC price could...

Senators in the U.S. say if Congress is going to get serious about establishing crypto regulations, they need to be bipartisan. This means both democrats and republicans need to agree on how the rules should play out and what they should accomplish. Congress Needs to Find Common Ground Over the last six years, one can easily say that both sides of the political spectrum have been at war with each other. It’s an ugly sight, in many ways. Both democrats and republicans are...

Morgan Stanley has retained its stance as one of the top banks in the United States with influence spread around the world. American multinational banking giant Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) has released its performance and revenue report for the first quarter of this fiscal year, showcasing a result that is lower than analysts’ expectations. Based on the company’s report, its revenue came in at $14.52 billion as against the $13.92 billion estimate by Refinitiv analysts. Additionally, the...